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In Brazil : encountering festivals, gods, and heroes in one of the world's most seductive nations / Fran Bryson.

by Bryson, Fran.

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Read How You Want (RHYW), an imprint of Scribe Publications 2016.

Bryson, Fran -- Travel.

Spirituality -- Biography.

Beliefs and cultures.

Belief change -- Biography.

Travel writing -- Brazil.

Travel writers -- Australia -- Biography.

Brazil -- Description and travel.

Brazil -- Social life and customs.

9781525225529 (pbk.)

EasyRead Large print edition.

xxii, 426 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-410) and further reading list (pages 411-426).

Seven years of travel in Brazil saw Fran Bryson's fascination with the country develop into something of an obsession with its culture, religions, and history. During many journeys from her home in Australia, she explored the country: from the glittering modern city of Brasília to small, deeply religious towns; from the inner reaches of the Amazon jungle to the vibrant backlands - home to outcasts and the possessed - and finally to the sweat-drenched streets of Rio during Carnaval. Lyrical and mesmerizing,this is Fran's account of her experiences travelling through one of the world's most colourful and contradictory nations. Fran Bryson is a travel writer who lives on Flinders Island, largest of the Furneaux islands, in the treacherous waters of Bass Strait, in south-eastern Australia. In the course of researching In Brazil, Fran took psychedelic drugs in the middle of the Amazon, sought out ancient and modern-day religious cults, and performed with a dance school as part of Carnaval in Rio.

Travel memoirs.

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